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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat

1955 CE · United States, North America · Civil Rights

Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat
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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American civil rights activist. She is best known for her 1955 refusal to move from her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in defiance of Jim Crow racial segregation laws, which sparked the Montgomery bus boycott. She is sometimes known as the "mother of the civil rights movement".

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